Schoeman Elsabe

Biography

Elsabe Schoeman is a professor in the Department of Private Law. She holds the degrees BLC (Pret) LLB (cum laude) LLD (Unisa). The title of her LLD thesis is “Domicile and Jurisdiction as Criteria in External Conflict of Laws”. She is admitted as Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Elsabe joined the Department of Private Law in 2016. She was a member of the Law School at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) for fourteen years, where she served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty and Deputy Director of the cross-faculty Europe Institute. Before taking up her academic position at the University of Auckland in 2002, she spent a year at the Institut für internationales und ausländisches Privatrecht (University of Cologne) as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Prior to that she was a professor in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of South Africa. Her main areas of research are jurisdiction in cross-border civil and commercial litigation and choice of law in contract, delict/tort and selected areas of family law. She has made contributions to international legal encyclopaedias in her areas of interest, as well as submissions to law commissions (in South Africa and New Zealand) and she regularly advises law firms on transnational litigation in South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany.

Research Interest

Her main areas of specialisation and current research focus are transnational personal injury litigation and the human rights dimension in cross-border litigation.